People

Steffani Bennett, Ph.D. 2020

Assistant Professor and Joan B Mirviss Chair in Japanese Art

Department of Art History

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Steffani Bennett graduated with honors from the University of Washington with a major in art history and a minor in Japanese language. She entered the Ph.D. program at Harvard in 2012 in the field of Japanese art history. Steffani specializes in pre...

Phillip Bloom, Ph.D. 2013

Curator of the Chinese Garden

Director of the Center for East Asian Garden Studies

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

Bloom joined the Huntington Library in 2017 after a term as Assistant Professor of East Asian art at Indiana University. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University in the history of art and architecture, specializing in the visual culture of China's Song...

Daniel Borengasser, Ph.D. 2024

Assistant Professor

College of Liberal Arts

International Christian University

Daniel Borengasser is a scholar of Japanese art and architectural history, specializing primarily in Buddhist art of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. His current research interests include the history of Buddhist sculpture, materiality and...

Mycah Brazelton-Braxton, Ph.D. 2021

Assistant Professor

Department of Art History

Indiana University

Mycah Brazelton-Braxton completed a B.A. in Art History at Duke University and an M.A. in East Asian Studies at Stanford University. Her research is focused on modern and contemporary Japanese art history.

Kit Brooks, Ph.D. 2017

Curator of Asian Art

Princeton University Art Museum

Kit Brooks joined the Art Museum in 2024 and is a specialist in Japanese art history. Prior to their appointment, Brooks was the Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art at the National Museum of Asian Art (Smithsonian Institutions, Washington...

Fletcher Coleman, Ph.D. 2020

Associate Professor

Department of Art and Art History

UT Arlington

Fletcher Coleman is a specialist on the art historiography and religious arts of China, whose research spans the early medieval through modern periods. His current project examines the antiquarian conventions and pedagogical practices utilized by American...

Mark Erdmann, Ph.D. 2016

Lecturer in Art History

School of Culture and Communication

University of Melbourne

Mark K Erdmann is a Lecturer in Art History at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. Erdmann specializes in Japanese pre-modern architecture, particularly of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, and the intersection of space, painting...

Fabienne Helfenberger, M.A. 2017

Assistant Professor

Architecture and Design

Kyoto Institute of Technology

Bing Huang, Ph.D. 2018

Associate Professor

Department of Art History

Providence College

Karen Hwang, Ph.D. 2010

Independent Scholar

Leah Justin-Jinich, Ph.D. 2025

Independent Scholar

After obtaining a Master’s degree in Japanese literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Leah Justin-Jinich entered the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations as a PhD student at Harvard University in 2016. Her dissertation explores...

Youn-mi Kim, Ph.D. 2010

Associate Professor

Asian Art history

Ewha Womans University

Youn-mi Kim is Associate Professor of Asian Art History at Ewha Womans University. Prior to joining the Ewha faculty, she was Assistant Professor at Yale University (2012-16) and Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University (2011-12). She is Editor of...